What is more effective in my service delivery is to work from an ecological perspective, where I first collaborate with teachers on creating conditions for student social-emotional success, thereby enhancing the classroom and school environment with the goal being to increase student affiliation with and a strong sense of belonging within these positive school environments.

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Often, when we first meet his teachers each year, I pretend I'm his actual mother.

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The approach taken by my teachers from first grade through high school was that I was lazy, stupid or both.

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And he said, well, you know, my biggest problem is, Korean parents are too demanding and they are insisting, for example, that I import, and I've had to import, thousands of foreign English teachers because they all feel that first graders should be learning English already.

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"This is the first time I can remember in a long time that we have seen the National Association of Head Teachers voting to strike, " he added.

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They want their kids to learn English in first grade, and so I've had to ship in a whole bunch of foreign speaking teachers to meet the demand.

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Hebrew lessons typically start several years, not several months, before your 13th birthday, and since I had no facility for language in the first place, it was only a couple of weeks before my teachers deemed me hopeless and, instead of teaching me Hebrew, had me performing maintenance chores, such as cleaning the school's blackboards.

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It is only recently I have realized that this Swami was in fact one of India's most influential spiritual teachers - the first to package eastern philosophy for the West.

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